Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
JOHN BERGERThe unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination
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For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.
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All creation is in the art of seeing.
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Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
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A man’s presence suggests what he is capable of doing to you or for you.
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory.
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The unsung, impersonal world remains outside, on the other surface of a placenta. All songs, even when their content or rendering is strongly masculine, operate maternally.
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What any true painting touches is an absence – an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
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At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
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It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one’s self to be bored.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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